National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – National AssemblyChairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan will lead a high-ranking Vietnamese delegationto attend the 40th GeneralAssembly of ASEAN Inter-ParliamentaryAssembly (AIPA 40) and pay an official visit to Thailand from August25-30.
The trip will be made at the invitation of Speaker of the Thai House ofRepresentatives Chuan Leekpai, who is also Chair of AIPA 40. The high-rankingVietnamese delegation taking part in AIPA 40 aims to continue affirming theVietnamese legislature’s active and responsible participation in AIPA’sactivities and improving Vietnam’s external activities.
The AIPA 40 will take the theme “Advancing Parliamentary Partnership for Sustainable Community”,during which NA Chairwoman Ngan will assume the role of AIPA Chair from SpeakerLeekpai, organising the AIPA 41 next year and other activities within theframework of the AIPA Chair Year.
Vietnam and Thailand established their diplomatic ties in 1976 and upgraded therelationship to strategic partnership level on the occasion of the Thailandvisit by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in 2013.
Both sides effectively carried out the action programme to realise bilateralstrategic partnership for the 2014 – 2018 period and are working on contents ofthe action programme for the 2019 – 2024 period.
Thailand is now Vietnam’s largest trade partner in ASEAN while Vietnam isThailand’s second largest importer in ASEAN and the seventh largest globally.Two-way trade hit 17.2 billion USD last year. The two countries set to bringthe two-way trade to 20 billion USD by 2020. Thailand ranks ninth out of 126countries and territories investing in Vietnam with 521 valid projects worth10.38 billion USD. Vietnam now invests in 17 projects worth 29.2 million USD inThailand.
The two countries are among the most active members of sub-regional cooperationmechanisms and closely working together in the fields of labour, culture,sports, tourism and people-to-people exchange.
The number of overseas Vietnamese in Thailand counts over 100,000, who have madeimportant contributions to socio-economic development in the host nation.
The trip will be made at the invitation of Speaker of the Thai House ofRepresentatives Chuan Leekpai, who is also Chair of AIPA 40. The high-rankingVietnamese delegation taking part in AIPA 40 aims to continue affirming theVietnamese legislature’s active and responsible participation in AIPA’sactivities and improving Vietnam’s external activities.
The AIPA 40 will take the theme “Advancing Parliamentary Partnership for Sustainable Community”,during which NA Chairwoman Ngan will assume the role of AIPA Chair from SpeakerLeekpai, organising the AIPA 41 next year and other activities within theframework of the AIPA Chair Year.
Vietnam and Thailand established their diplomatic ties in 1976 and upgraded therelationship to strategic partnership level on the occasion of the Thailandvisit by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in 2013.
Both sides effectively carried out the action programme to realise bilateralstrategic partnership for the 2014 – 2018 period and are working on contents ofthe action programme for the 2019 – 2024 period.
Thailand is now Vietnam’s largest trade partner in ASEAN while Vietnam isThailand’s second largest importer in ASEAN and the seventh largest globally.Two-way trade hit 17.2 billion USD last year. The two countries set to bringthe two-way trade to 20 billion USD by 2020. Thailand ranks ninth out of 126countries and territories investing in Vietnam with 521 valid projects worth10.38 billion USD. Vietnam now invests in 17 projects worth 29.2 million USD inThailand.
The two countries are among the most active members of sub-regional cooperationmechanisms and closely working together in the fields of labour, culture,sports, tourism and people-to-people exchange.
The number of overseas Vietnamese in Thailand counts over 100,000, who have madeimportant contributions to socio-economic development in the host nation.
Ties between the two legislaturesare growing with mutual support at international inter-parliamentary forumssuch as the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum andthe ASEAN Inter-ParliamentaryAssembly.
Friendship parliamentarians’ groups of the two nations have facilitatedexchanges. During recent meetings, Thai parliamentarians expressed theirinterest in promoting bilateral collaboration across rice export, economic andtrade activities, culture-education, and science-technology.
NA Chairwoman Ngan’s presence at AIPA 40 and visit to Thailand is to affirm theVietnamese Party and State’s external policy of active and proactiveintegration into the region and the world, further strengthening Vietnam –Thailand strategic partnership.-VNA
Friendship parliamentarians’ groups of the two nations have facilitatedexchanges. During recent meetings, Thai parliamentarians expressed theirinterest in promoting bilateral collaboration across rice export, economic andtrade activities, culture-education, and science-technology.
NA Chairwoman Ngan’s presence at AIPA 40 and visit to Thailand is to affirm theVietnamese Party and State’s external policy of active and proactiveintegration into the region and the world, further strengthening Vietnam –Thailand strategic partnership.-VNA
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